Jerry Mouse: Difference between revisions

===''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons===

The name "Jerry" was chosen by Geraint Rowlands, who submitted "Tom and Jerry" as potential names for the duo after an important [[Loews Inc.]] distributor in Texas asked for follow-ups to ''Puss Gets the Boot''.<ref name="JBarberaPuss"/> While the idea of a cat-and-mouse duo was considered shopworn by the 1940s,<ref name="JBarberaPuss"/> Hanna and Barbera decided to expand upon the standard expected cat and mouse relationship. Instead of being a "cowering victim" of [[Tom Cat|Tom]], he took delight in besting, and even torturing, his feline frenemy (even if Tom is just following orders or is even just minding his own business and is antagonized by Jerry). Hanna and Barbera considered Tom and Jerry "the best of enemies", whose rivalry hid an unspoken amount of mutual caring and respect for one another.<ref name="HannaonTJ">{{Cite book|last=Hanna|first=William| author-link=William Hanna|title=A Cast of Friends|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=2000|page=20|isbn=978-0-7864-0728-6}}</ref>

 

In later ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons, Jerry acquired a young ward: a small grey mouse called "[[Nibbles (Tom and Jerry)|Tuffy]]" or "Nibbles" depending upon the cartoon,<ref name="JBarberaTuffy"/><ref name="MaltinTuffy"/> who was left on Jerry's doorstep as a [[Child abandonment|foundling]] baby in the 1946 short ''The Milky Waif''.<ref name="MaltinTuffy">{{Cite book|last=Maltin|first =Leonard|author-link=Leonard Maltin|title=Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons|publisher=Plume|orig-year=1980|year=1987|location=New York|pages=303–304|isbn=978-0-452-25993-5}}</ref> Jerry and Tuffy were also featured together in a sub-series of ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons set in 17th century France which featured the characters as [[musketeers]].<ref name="JBarberaTuffy">{{Cite book|last=Barbera|first=Joe|author-link=Joseph Barbera|title=My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century|publisher=Turner Publishing|year=1994|location=Atlanta, GA|page=[https://archive.org/details/mylifeintoonsfro00barb/page/96 96]|url=https://archive.org/details/mylifeintoonsfro00barb/page/96|isbn=978-1-57036-042-8}}</ref> The first of these shorts, ''[[The Two Mouseketeers]]'', won the 1951 [[Academy Award for Animated Short Film|Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons]].<ref name="JBarberaTuffy"/>